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Topic: Funny typo time! (Read 3454 times)

I had to pay a visit to the ER yesterday morning - I'm fine, which is why this is not in the "Hug" folder. When I checked in, I told the front desk person my chief complaint - I got chomped on by a kitty. I went back to triage, and was greeted with "How did you get bit by a car?"

BG: back in the 1960s, several friends worked at a local radio station and we often hung out there.

The news feed came by teletype and was constant. Factoids would fill in when there wasn't heavy news. When something important came in, the fluff would be stopped in mid-story and there would be a loud clatter as the machine typed out

'KILL-KILL-KILL-KILL'

Then the important story would begin.End of BG.

We were hanging out in the control room on a slow news day when a big story came in. Great hilarity burst forth as we looked at the teletype. It read as follows.

'Rabbit hunting season opens today in Texas...KILL-KILL-KILL-KILL'

That little bit stayed on the control room bulletin board for a few years.

Someone recently had tickets for Chicago and The Boobie Brothers for sale on Kijiji, sounds kinda tittilating doesn't it? I should have asked if he could keep me abreast of the situation, lol! And no the seller wasn't from Nippleopolis (a Norbit movie joke) either!

Many years ago, a faculty member at my former institution (now Emeritus), argued that his manuscript was PERFECT and didn't need proofreading by the journal. So they ran it the way it arrived. Unfortunately, the author was a little too fond of search and replace, and a manuscript about feral pigs on the California Channel Islands ended up being about FETAL pigs.

Mass hilarity ensued. He thereafter allowed people to proof his papers.